5. QUIZZING JARGONS
• Infinite Bounce : If a question meant for Team A, is answered by Team
B, then the next question will be direct for Team C and so on.
• Pounce : If a question is meant for Team A but if other teams believe
that they know the answer then they can pounce on that question by
writing their answers on a sheet before a stipulated time.
• Pounce to death : If you are pouncing on a question but you get it
wrong then you would not have any chance of pouncing on other
questions.
6. Last but not the least
• DO NOT SHOUT THE ANSWERS UNLESS ASKED TO DO SO, APPLICABLE
FOR THE TEAMS AND THE AUDIENCE.
• In such cases, the culprit team shall be disqualified so as the
audience.
7. ROUND 1 : PEHCHAAN KAUN ?
• 5 Questions
• Written Round
• Each question carries 5 marks.
• No negative marking
• Bonus of 5 points if all answers are correct.
8. Q1.
• This is the playlist released by Spotify
which consists of tracks by artists
including Spice Girls and the Beatles.
• Although the DJ developed an ear
problem after playing at an Auckland
music festival, the “DJ” became a
recognised figure in another field
and a symbol of compassion and
strength.
• Who is this DJ ?
9.
10. Q2.
• Which “famous” and “mostly-
searched” West Ham supporter
had tweeted this ?
11. Q3.
• Identify the famous Indian poet whose pen-name means “unique”
in Hindi.
12. Q4.
• Identify the person in the given photo would go on to be a celebrated
yet controversial figure in the world of fashion.
13. Q5.
• Identify the sportsperson who
disguised in such a way he could
take part in the festivities and
avoid fans.
15. Q1.
• This is the playlist released by Spotify
which consists of tracks by artists
including Spice Girls and the Beatles.
• Although the DJ developed an ear
problem after playing at an Auckland
music festival in 2014, the “DJ”
became a recognised figure in
another field and a symbol of
compassion and strength.
• Who is this DJ who went to another
field of work?
28. Round 2
• Infinite Bounce
• Infinite Pounce
• Direct: +10/0 (No negative marking )
• Pounce: +20/-10 (-10 for any wrong pounce attempt)
• Clockwise Round
29. Q1.
• In the summer of 2004, slow left arm bowler Ashley Giles gained the
nickname "King of X ", after a set of mugs ordered in 2000 (for his
testimonial year) were erroneously printed with that slogan, instead of the
original quote.
• They were originally only two of these mugs produced, one of which Giles
used for his coffee in the dressing room (this mug was subsequently
stolen), and another on display in the club shop.
• However, after the error was publicised, a further two hundred mugs were
produced with the image of actual king of X on the other side and were
snapped up by Warwickshire fans. Later, English fans would sing in the
native language of X in the honour of Giles.
• X is the erroneous version of Y which was Giles’ skill set.
• Give X and Y.
32. Q2.
• X is the main character of a popular folk tale in India and Pakistan. As all folk
tales go, this tale too has a moral, a moral which seems almost forced and
contrived. As told, the protagonist of the story has been portrayed as a loser,
a character living in a world of his self-created illusions. A person who dreams
of becoming rich and famous, while all that he possesses is an egg.
• If we talk of Mughal history, X was a saint and was the spiritual master of
Dara Shikoh, the eldest son of Shah Jahan and his name meant as the one
who practiced spirituality for 40 days.
• In 2018, Indian rapper Raftaar released a song named X in reply to Emiway’s
“Samajh Mein Aaya Kya” in then on-going feud. X was also aptly named
because of Emiway’s original name.
• Give X (a two-word name).
35. Q3.
• The film in the question, follows the story of a teenage girl who is an
aspiring dancer but is diagnosed with alopecia, a condition where she
starts losing hair rapidly.
• This film stars Shweta Tripathi as the patient with Jeetendra aka Jeetu of
TVF fame paired opposite her and it released on March 29, 2019.
• The title is a word play on a catchphrase used in daily lives to express a
hopeless situation where things have gone out of one’s hands and no one
could save themselves from doom.
• Give the title of this Bollywood movie which is a corrupted version of the
catchphrase and aptly titled with respect to the medical condition.
38. Q4.
• “Times-Roman was the font of choice for the web at that time, while sans-serif
fonts were the darling of the printed world. I wanted the readability of a serifed
font, but looked for a typeface that had the same qualities we were looking for
– subtly sophisticated, but with some humor and irreverence “.
• The chosen typeface is a based on Catull, an old style serif typeface. Catull
borrows elements from traditional writing instruments such as the quill and the
chisel with a modern twist. Search, by nature, is an activity that requires we
look into the past. Therefore Catull’s historical ties seemed appropriate, as did
the bridging between the old analog world and the new emerging digital era.”
• This was the reply of Ruth Kedar, a Brazilian artist about her design of which
logo?
41. Q5.
• In 2012, the band members of X auditioned as 5 solo contestants on the second
season of the American televised singing competition The X Factor and later
formed an all-girl band on the show.
• Initially, the group's name was "Lylas" (an acronym for Love You Like a Sister), but
another group called "The Lylas" (which consists of four of Bruno Mars' sisters)
claimed that the show (X-Factor USA ) stole their name. So, they changed it to
1432.
• However, a section of judges including Simon Cowell were critical of the new
name, and Cowell suggested that the group be renamed again. Cowell decided to
send 1432 through to the Top 12 and announced that they would be renamed via
the viewers online. The name chosen by the public was announced: “X“ .
• X would go on to produce hits like “Work From Home” and “Por Favor”. Later,
“Havana” hit maker Camila Cabello would quit the band to pursue her solo career.
• Give X
44. Q6.
• The X cars were built in Canterbury, Kent and stored
at Higham Park, Zborowski's country house at
Bridge near Canterbury.
• The cars were so loud that Canterbury reportedly
passed a by-law prohibiting them from entering
within the city walls. The origin of the phrase is
disputed, but may have been inspired by
aeronautical engineer Letitia X, the sound of an
idling aeroplane engine or from a salacious World
War I song.
• The phrase would go on to be popular among the
masses as Ian Fleming would use the phrase for his
1964 children novel involving X cars before he died.
• In modern-day world, the phrase has been used as
a cheat-code for flying cars in GTA San Andreas.
• Give the phrase.
47. Q7.
• In the season 4 of Arrow, Oliver Queen invites John Constantine reprised by
Welsh actor named Matt Ryan after nearly a year, for the restoration of
the soul of Sara Lance after being resurrected with the help of Lazarus Pit.
• In the episode, Constantine asks for a list of materials for the mentioned
process which included a dead peacock feather and it was used by him to
scratch an itch on his back.
• Many would rub it off as a comic relief but the fans pointed out that Ryan
was merely taking a dig at an entity synonymous with the peacock due to
his short association with the “entity” caused by the latter.
• Which entity is being talked about ?
48.
49. Answer
• Matt Ryan was taking a dig at NBC as they cancelled his show based
on the DC comics character.
50. Q8.
• In Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill Vol.1 (2003), a
group of henchmen working under the local
yakuza boss O-Ren-Ishii, meet up at a local
pub in Tokyo for a get-together. One of Ishii’s
henchmen addresses the manager as X, a
famous comic-art character due to his
striking resemblance to X.
• As Tarantino never fails to amuse the
viewers with his pop-culture references in
his movies, who is X which was created in
the late 1940s and made its debut in 1950 as
the protagonist of the comic strip.
53. Q9.
• The X Generation is the generation that came of age during World War I,
which took the lives of 40 million people.
• “X” in this context also means “disoriented, wandering, directionless”—a
recognition that there was great confusion and aimlessness among the war's
survivors in the early post-war years.“
• The term is particularly used to refer to a group of artists, and particularly
American expatriate writers, living in Paris during the 1920s.
• Gertrude Stein is credited with coining the term; it was subsequently
popularized by Ernest Hemingway who used it in the epigraph for his 1926
novel The Sun Also Rises: “You are all X generation.”
• This generation is said to include the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude
Stein, Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Jean Rhys and Sylvia Beach.
• Give X.
60. Round 3: Cross Connection
• 5 Questions
• Written Round
• Identify all and find the common theme in each question.
• Identification : +5 points (All needed) ; Connection: +5 points =10
points
• All correct identifications in 5 questions: +5 bonus
• All correct connection in 5 questions: +5 bonus
• Total bonus of 10 points for all correct answers for both parts of 5
questions.
68. Answer
• Captain Marvel
• Bryan Robson’s nickname
• Zachary Levi will portray the role of Shazam, originally known as
Captain Marvel.
• Roy Thomas, co-creator of Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel
72. Answer
• The Naked Maja
• Noel Gerson wrote the novel of the same name.
• Ava Gardner was a part of an adaptation of Gerson’s book.
• The Naked Maja is a work of Francisco Goya.
80. Round 4: Endgame
• Infinite Bounce
• Infinite Pounce
• Direct: +10/0 (No negative marking )
• Pounce: +20/-20 (-20 for any wrong pounce attempt)
• Anti-Clockwise Round
81. Q1.
• X (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor, director, producer, and
musician who has won 2 Academy Awards for the movie “Dancing with
Wolves” in the 90s and has featured in Man of Steel and Molly’s Game
recently.
• A certain Jimmy McGill aka Saul Goodman, played by Bob Odenkirk in
Better Call Saul, tries to be an imposter of X and dupes businessmen
after the character was mistaken for X due to their similar looks
• Who is X ?
• Image of X on the following slide.
85. Q2.
• Bren Dunne, 27, from Dublin told LADbible that he and X chatted for a
bit when they bumped into each other but he never realised what
happened that night ended up becoming the source of a massive
song.
• "Time passed and I never thought too much of it as Ibiza is that type
place where you bump into celebrities," he told us.
• Bren tweeted out to X whether the latter still remembers the guy who
gave “something” in Ibiza at Avicii’s concert and X replied in
affirmative.
• Who is X and which song is being referred to ?
88. Q3
• Until the 1950s, X was a village, called Iluh, with a population of about 3,000.
However, oil fields were discovered around it in the 1940s that resulted in a rapid
development of the area and in the inflow of workforce from other parts of
Turkey. In 1957, the village was renamed X, after the river namesake, received a
city status, and became a district center.
• Huseyin Kalkan, the then mayor of the predominantly Kurdish town located in the
X province of Turkey on the X River, was preparing to file a series of charges
against Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. for royalties because they used X for
their movie character without any permission.
• There is only one X in the world," Kalkan said. "The American producers used the
name of our city without informing us.“
• However, it is said X got its present name whereas the character was already
established 2 decades earlier.
• Give X.
91. Q4.
• This is a memorial to Mahatma Gandhi who
had visited Kanyakumari in 1925 and 1937. It
is constructed at a place on the seashore,
near to Kumari Amman Temple, where his
ashes were kept for public darshan before
immersion in the sea on February 12, 1948.
• Gandhi Mandapam is built in Orissa style of
architecture and specially designed in such a
way that it is a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi,
especially on his birth anniversary.
Give funda about the design with the idea of
giving tributes to Gandhiji on his birth
anniversary.
94. Q5.
• In the ending stages of FIFA World Cup 2018, apart from a popular
football song, football fans of a certain country known for getting
arrogant and fans of the national team started a campaign
#WaistCoatWednesday to support the team in a crucial encounter.
• Moreover, fans flocked to shops to buy waistcoats to hail a person
who was responsible for the team’s progress after years of
inconsistency and hurt.
• Although the team could not go on to win the Cup, the fans
applauded the person and called him for the knighthood.
• Who is the person in the context?
97. Q6.
• The word “X" perhaps came from the o-grade of the Proto-Indo-European
root *men- ("to think") or from root *men- ("to tower, mountain") since all
the most important cult-centres of the X were on mountains or hills. R. S. P.
Beekes rejects both etymologies and suggests a Pre-Greek origin.
• In Greek mythology, X are the inspirational goddesses of literature, science,
and the arts. They are considered the source of the knowledge embodied
in the poetry, lyric songs, and myths that were related orally for centuries
in these ancient cultures.
• Some Greek writers give the names of the nine X as Kallichore, Helike,
Eunike, Thelxinoë, Terpsichore, Euterpe, Eukelade, Dia, and Enope.
What is X ?
100. Q7.
• Generations: The Legacy is a South African soap opera which first
premiered on SABC 1 in 2014 after a dispute with the actors, putting an
end to the show of the same first name. It was created Mfundi Vundla .
• Set against the backdrop of the advertising industry, this drama celebrates
the hopes and dreams of South Africans who aspire to a better future.
• However, the show indirectly gained a worldwide popularity when
someone posted a scene from the show featuring actor Rapulana
Seiphemo where the character expresses his anguish over the betrayal by
his lover and the scene has been used by social media users to make light
of such situation.
• Which viral social media phenomenon/meme is being talked about ?
103. Q8.
• The X effect is the phenomenon that poets are more susceptible to mental illness
than other creative writers. The term was coined in 2001 by psychologist James C.
Kaufman. Although many studies (e.g., Andreasen, 1987; Jamison, 1989; Ludwig,
1995) have demonstrated that creative writers are prone to mental illness, this
relationship has not been examined in depth.
• This early finding has been dubbed "the X effect", and implications and
possibilities for future research are discussed. Kaufman's work further
demonstrated that female poets were more likely to experience mental illness
than any other class of writers.
• X is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known
for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel, and
The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death. In
1982, she won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Poems.
• Who is X?
106. Q9.
• Born in Keri, X was an Indian classical vocalist of the Jaipur-
Atrauli gharana. A protege of Ustad Alladiya Khan (1855–1946),
the founder of the gharana, from age sixteen, she went on to
become one of the most noted khayal singers of the second half
of the 20th century
• X has the further distinction of having one of her recordings,
"Jaat Kahan Ho", duration 3:30 (an interpretation of raga
Bhairavi) included on the Voyager Golden Record, a gold-plated
copper disc containing music selections from around the world,
which was sent into space aboard the Voyager 1 and 2
spacecraft in 1977.
• The recording was recommended for inclusion on the Voyager
disc by the ethnomusicologist Robert E. Brown, who believed it
to be the finest recorded example of Indian classical music.
109. Q10.
• One of the most common suggestions, Wilson says, is that the
progression is related to minutes on a clock. “It’s been suggested that
the monks would look at the clock, the 4 points and somehow felt
that was a good way of scoring,” she says, “and then 45 became 40,
though nobody knows why.” Clocks were rapidly developing in the
Middle Ages and division into a rough quarter hour was imaginable.
This theory’s detractors point out that minute hands on clocks were
only introduced in the late 1500s and became common even later.
Which scoring aspect of the game ?